Jack Book 2 In The Trilogy: Murder On The High Seas (Jack Trilogy)

Jack: Book 2 is a fantastic high seas adventure for ages 13 (advanced readers) to 110. It transitions nicely from Jack: Book 1, which ends with Jack's and Jeremy's teacher, Master Whittemore - in earlier times, a 'preacher' on slave ships sailing the Middle Passage - quitting teaching after a devastating classroom humiliation at the hands of Jack. Whittemore returns to the sea on what Jeremy and Jack believe is a suicide mission. Jack - who hated master in Book 1 - follows him to sea while recruiting his best friend - the reluctant Jeremy who invariably is skeptical of Jack's grand adventure plans. Both former students had developed a new-found respect for Master Whittemore and so, surreptitiously, they sign up for the same sea voyage unaware that the Diana is a 'devil' slave ship. Whittemore is appalled to see his students on deck on that first night after the ship is well beyond the northern-flowing Gulf Stream. Whittemore - now the self-proclaimed 'preacher of the deep' for 'the Church of the Holy Waters' - plans to incite rebellion in his first sermon since glorifying the southern white plantation slavery system on the same ship three years past in many other Sunday sermons. The master refuses to listen to Jeremy and Jack who beg him not to go through with his 'crazy' plan. Book 2 opens with master's long diatribe against the slave trade and against Captain Pendleton and his enablers - the crew of the Helena. Intrigue, espionage, conspiracies, mutiny and a hurricane plague the ship's voyage afterwards during its several-month cruise through the Caribbean Sea to the islands of Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola. In Jamaica, the first stop, Jack and Jeremy meet two free blacks - America and Mauricia - and together they conspire to free 110 slaves who, it is planned, will board the Diana in Cuba. Mr. Dorion - while in the US Navy - spent many weeks at sea, and on one cruise without seeing land for 30 days. One of the warships he was on went through a hurricane in the North Atlantic above England and that experience inspired some events in the book.

Author: Gary L. Dorion

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: May 08, 2016

Number of Pages: 114 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1523810327

ISBN-13: 9781523810321